Tim Shaw (presenter)

Tim Shaw
Born	(1974-01-15) 15 January 1974
Occupation(s)	Radio and TV Presenter
Known for	Tim Shaw's Asylum and The Morning After on Kerrang! Radio, Balls Of Steel on Channel 4, Fifth Gear on Five, Absolution on Absolute Radio, Tim Shaw's Rehab on the Orion Media Network, Maninbox.
Website	http://www.timshaw.co.uk/

Timothy "Tim" Shaw (Born 15 January 1974 in Sunderland) is a British radio DJ. Shaw has been sacked from 13 radio stations in the UK and has been given the biggest fine in Europe for breaching radio regulations. His radio show often features secret recordings and phonecalls he makes to his family and friends, sometimes even live, but also very candid and honest interviews with guests who have included Kitty Hart-Moxon, a survivor of the Holocaust, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and former underworld gangster Dave Courtney. He currently hosts a Sunday Night show on 97.4 Rock FM in North West England.

Radio career

Radio Stations worked on

He has worked on over 13 different radio stations including BRMB, Beacon, Century FM, Hallam FM, Magic Radio, Kerrang! Radio, Kiss 100 and most recently Absolute Radio, BBC WM, BBC Midlands Network (9 stations)

He replaced Jeremy Kyle on the Orion Media Network when Kyle moved to Century FM.

Kerrang! Radio - The Asylum

Shaw began working for Kerrang! Radio in 2004, on The Asylum. It broadcast between 22:00 and 01:00 Sunday to Thursday with help from members of his team nicknamed Juicy Lucy, Donkhole, Nob Holder, Slippy Knickers, Chris Peacock and Toenail and his special friend Judith the Clairvoyant to name a few. The show ended on 20 September 2007.

Shaw's greatest controversy was in 2005 when he and his then colleague Greg Prebble broke into the house of Kerrang Radio's then station director, Andrew Jeffries, live on air. Jeffries returned to his house at 11:20 pm believing that he had been burgled when Tim and his colleague burst out of the cupboards. Tim was immediately suspended 'until further notice' and did not return to Kerrang! Radio for a month.

Holocaust interview

Near the end of 2006, Tim interviewed Kitty Hart-Moxon, a survivor of the Holocaust and the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Shaw believed that the interview would last 1 hour and 30 minutes but it actually lasted just under 7 hours. Shaw went ahead with the interview as he believes that schools attempting to teach the Holocaust in a 50-minute history lesson is 'a disgrace', and is also trying to get the interview played at schools. Listener feedback has said that the interview has been inspiring and interesting and makes one think in disbelief that the Holocaust only happened 60 years ago.

Tim himself has said "This has changed my life and the best thing I have done in a long time" and audience feedback has been generally positive suggesting that Kerrang! Radio bosses, who were initially skeptical about running an item so different from their usual output until Shaw persuaded them, may have underestimated how supportive the listeners would be.

Shaw became very upset with a listener on the 7 January when a text was received saying "If I wanted to hear something depressing, I would listen to Late Night Love". This angered Tim so much that he stopped the interview and had to play a song so he could cool down. The interview is available on CD.

Lotus Esprit

Shaw's wife, Hayley, sold his Lotus Esprit, worth £25,000, for 50p on eBay after he told Jodie Marsh live on air that he would leave his wife and two children for her. Hayley placed the lot on the auction site at the 'buy it now' price of 50p with the description 'I need to get rid of this car in the next two to three hours before my husband gets home to find it gone and all his belongings in the street.' The car sold within five minutes. The scandal made international news and Shaw even made a live apology to his wife on Channel 4's Richard & Judy show. He then bought the car back for £5000.

Controversy

In April 2007 during an interview with the couple Ben Lunt and Lianne Dauban about their time as Shipwrecked 2007 contestants, Tim was attacked after he covertly filmed up Lianne's skirt with a webcam during the interview. The images of Lianne's underwear were broadcast live on the Kerrang website and after receiving a text message from a friend, Lunt punched the presenter and the couple walked out of the interview.

Shaw was also deemed to be in breach of Ofcom standards for broadcasting a live telephone call Shaw made to his grandmother in which he said (in his own voice) that "Timothy Shaw died today" to the audible dismay of his grandmother followed by revealing that it he was just a joke, resulting in her putting the phone down on him.

Kiss 100 - Breakfast

In December 2005 Tim, Tony Marks and Neev presented London's Kiss 100. A number of The Asylum calls, wind-up's and features were on the show. Tim subsequently won the "Best Breakfast Show/Morning Entertainment Category" at the New York Radio Awards 2007.

Kerrang! Radio - The Morning After

On 11 September 2007 Kerrang! Radio announced that Tim Shaw had been given the breakfast slot replacing Ugly Phil. The show began on 1 October 2007, it was hosted by Tim Shaw & Kate Lawler and aired between 7:00am and 10:00am Monday to Friday. The show had been gaining popularity and a growing audience according to Kerrang! Radio figures.

Controversy

Tim Shaw was suspended from Kerrang Radio on 23 April 2008. On 9 May 2008 Kerrang broadcast a message stating that Tim Shaw's contract with the station had been ended for fixing the results of a competition. His profile has been deleted from the stations website and was replaced by Simon James and Hill.

Absolute Radio - Absolution

Tim presented "Absolution" on Absolute Radio (formerly Virgin Radio) each Friday and Saturday night, 10pm - 1am, with help from members of his team Roque, Eloise and Pants and then later was joined by Peta and Nob Holder 3rd. The show takes almost the same format as his former Kerrang! Radio show, The Asylum. The first show aired broadcasting content ", offending a minority of listeners. This led to him having to make apologies every half an hour for his next 2 shows once he returned. Along with this, Tim and the presenters involved also received written warnings.

BRMB/Orion Media - Rehab

Tim presented "Tim Shaw's Rehab" on BRMB and Networked on Orion Media stations Wyvern, Beacon & Mercia each Friday and Saturday night, 10pm - 1am, with help from members of his team Jamie Lee, Pants, Slippy Knickers & Donkhole plus various guests. The show takes almost the same format as his former Absolute Radio and Kerrang! Radio shows "The Absolution" and "The Asylum". The first show aired on 15 January 2010.

The last show aired 3 June 2010 as Tim was offered a new job at Sky and at the same time that Orion Media decided to give The Sanctuary type of show two more shows on Friday and Saturdays.

The show won Gold in Best Personality: Network/Syndicated at the New York Festivals Radio Program and Promotion Awards 2010.

97.4 Rock FM

Tim also now hosts a Sunday afternoon show on 97.4 Rock FM in North West of England. Rock FM is owned by the same company that owns Kerrang radio, who sacked him 4 years previously.

Bauer Network Comedy Show

Following the huge success of the Rock FM Sunday afternoon show, Bauer decided to network the show across 9 of their other radio stations. These include: Key 103, Hallam FM, Radio City, Radio Aire, Viking FM, CFM, TFM, Rock FM and Metro Radio. This makes the show the first networked comedy radio show for over 20 years on commercial radio.

TV career

Balls Of Steel

Tim is featured on Channel 4's "Balls Of Steel" which is currently in its third season (Tim joined on the second season). In this he is called "Mr. Inappropriate", and does outrageous things such as masturbating in a corner shop, asking for his pubic hair to be cut in a "short back and sides" in a hairdresser, and pulling his pants down in the middle of a conversation. He became a teacher in one of his clips, and he taught the foreign students offensive phrases such as "go home Johnny Foreigner" and "bellend". He also embarrassed a bald man by claiming in public that he dropped a wig, and tried his luck selling double glazing at 4 AM, similar to the segment on The Asylum. As well as farting, he pretended to smoke Crack outside a pub.

Fifth Gear

Although Tim is best known as a radio presenter on Virgin and Kerrang, his real passion is cars. He studied Automotive Transport Design at Coventry University, and he joins the Fifth Gear team as the official “people’s champion”, tackling all the issues that wind petrol heads RIGHT up. At the age of 12 Tim’s grandparents gave him his first car – a Morris 1100. Within 2 months, a car that only needed a new steering rack and front sub frame was in the scrap yard. Two years later he completed his first engine rebuild of a VW Beetle.

Next he bought a Type 3 Razored-Edge Karmann Ghia from some local travellers for £500. It took him 3 years to rebuild and was completed 3 months after he passed his driving test, in the days when classic car insurance was £200 fully comprehensive for a 17 year old

Since then it has been a story of mostly Saab Turbos, BMWs, VWs and 5 pot Audis. However along the way there has been the odd brain malfunction with the purchase of Nova SRs, Rover 600 Turbos, Volvos, Range Rovers and Minis.

Tim’s greatest feat was totally rebuilding a written-off Lotus Esprit Turbo, managing to extract over 400 bhp from the 2.2 litre engine. This car hit the headlines when his wife Hayley sold it on eBay for 50p after a “lover’s tiff”... (from the fifth gear website)

Britain's Worst Driver

Tim Shaw was the main presenter of Britain's Worst Driver.

Extreme Male Beauty

In May 2009, Tim hosted Extreme Male Beauty a show that explores male vanity and the various beauty standards that are placed on men but often overlooked. Throughout the course of the show he explores people's reactions to his own body and makes choices on how to improve himself that include a change in diet, plastic surgery and exercise.

Tim Shaw &...

Tim hosts a chat show on Current TV on Friday nights at 11:00PM, He interviews members of the public that have extraordinary stories to tell.

Britains Top 5....

Tim was one of the presenters on this Discovery Quest series aired in December 2012. An engineering show about mankind's greatest mechanical achievements.

Car Sos

His current full-time day job - Hosting National Geographic's new TV series about car restoration. To be aired early 2013.

Man Versus

His other current T

Other projects

timshaw.co.uk

During 2006, timshaw.co.uk was set up as a medium to allow fans of the radio show host to see what Tim has experienced in his life so far. The site continues to this day and is currently undergoing a facelift.

Try Dying

Tim Shaw was trying to develop a film through his Asylum radio show, called "Try Dying". It is based on the idea that when you have an accident, your life splits. On one "plane" of life you die, but on another you survive and carry on with your life. In the movie a man and his wife are deeply in love, but then she is raped and murdered. He is distraught, and tracks down and kills the rapist. He is especially upset when the police question him over his wife's murder. He then makes contact with a man who tells him that the only way to see his wife again is to commit suicide. He realises that he has put the rapist and his wife onto the same plane again and goes out to save his wife. Tim hopes that the film will be a great success because of the controversy it will generate, and because it is the first film ever to be produced through a radio show. Since conception, a script has been written but no further news had been published since the end of the Asylum show.

The 50p Car

In response to his wife selling his Lotus Esprit for 50p, Tim decided to build a £50,000 car with only 50p. He achieved this by asking various manufactures for "free" or extremely cheap parts for his car. He has since completed the project and appeared on ITV's Pulling Power. His car consists of a BMW chassis and a carbon fibre bonnet with a flexible retractable roof. It's also fitted with LCD screens on the passenger seats and the boot. It cost him 39p in total.

Man In Box

In February and March 2010 Tim spent 30 days locked inside a box. The location of the box was unknown, even to Tim. The box had two cameras streaming live online constantly. Through this one could guess where Tim was hidden. To do so, a user had to watch the stream daily for clues, then submit a location guess via the Man In Box website. No one found Tim, but he did raise money for Help for Heroes through advertisements on his website during the event. Over 8 million people watched the event throughout the period.

Awards

Emap (Bauer) Radio Awards

• 2006 EMAP Entertainment Award

Global Radio and Sony Radio Awards

• 2005 New York Radio Awards for The Asylum
• 2006 best radio show Working Title films
• 2007 Tim was awarded 4 GOLDS in the following categories:
• Talk Special- 'The Holocaust' an interview with holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon
• KISS 100 Best Breakfast Show/Morning Entertainment Category
• Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy Programme - The Asylum
• Bronze award for Best Regularly Scheduled Talk Programme - The Asylum
• 2010 Sony Radio Awards - won Entertainment cat. Beaten to gold by Chris Evans for show on Absolute Radio. Formerly Virgin Radio
• 2011 NY Global radio Awards. Gold award. Best comedy category
• 2011 NY Global radio Awards. Best interview.
• 2011 NY Global radio Awards. Best show imaging.

External links

• Tim Shaw's personal website